Augusta Saint Helena

246 - 330  (84 years)

• Name	Saint Helena
  Title	Augusta
  Birth	246
  Gender	Female
  Kinfolk of Note	Direct Ancestor of Mack Ferrin Smith
  Ordained	St Helena is patron of archaeologists, converts, difficult marriages, divorced people, empresses, Saint Helena island. Her feast is May 21 (Lutheran - May 19)  [1]
  		†Saint Helena Saint Helena finding the true cross
  Religion	On the site of her discovery of the True Cross, Constantine ordered the building of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre
  Death	330	Turkey
  	(Ancient Constantinople)
  Person ID	I5803	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

  Father	King of the Britons Coel Croilus Hen,   b. Dorset, England d. 150, England
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Ystradwal verch Cadfan,   b. Cornwall, England d. Colchester, Essex, England
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F3940	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Roman Emperor Marcus Flavius Valerius Constantius Herculius, Augustus,   b. 31 Mar 250   d. 25 Jul 306 (Age 56 years)
  Divorce	In 289 political developments forced him to divorc
  Children	1. Roman Emperor Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus, Augustus,   b. 27 Feb 272, Yugoslavia d. 22 May 337 (Age 65 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F226	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

• Old World		†Saint Helena Saint Helena finding the true cross
  		_Constantine and Helena Orthodox Bulgarian icon of Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus Augustus "Constantine the Great" (272-337) and his mother, St. Helena (246-330)

  
  

  Places

  Statue of Saint Helena Statue of Saint Helena in St. Peter's Basilica, Rome, Italy

  
  

• Sources

  [S547] Saints, Saint Helena. Empress mother of Constantine the Great. She was a native of Bithynia, who married the then Roman general Constantius I Chlorus about 270. Constantine was born soon after, and in 293, Constantius was made Caesar, or junior emperor. He divorced Helena to marry co Emperor Maximian’s stepdaughter. Constantine became emperor in 312 after the fateful victory at Milvian Bridge, and Helena was named Augusta, or empress. She converted to Christianity and performed many acts of charity, including building churches in Rome and in the Holy Land. On a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Helena discovered the True Cross. She is believed to have died in Nicomedia. Her porphyry sarcophagus is in the Vatican Museum. Geoffrey of Monmouth, England, started the legend that Helena was the daughter of the king of Colchester, a tradition no longer upheld. In liturgical art Helena is depicted as an empress, holding a cross http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=123